[…] been comforted by things staying the way they are; (staid, vanitas, elegiac)
AG2022_2110186a
Author: dig
just in case there was such a thing as magic after all
AG2022_2110115a or botanical systems of interconnection
A flower is a node on a network of botanical systems of interconnection and regeneration.
[…]
much of the beauty that moves us in the natural world is […] time itself as patterns, recurrences, the rhythmic passage of days and seasons and years, the lunar cycle and the tides, birth and death.
Rebecca Solnit
name that called forth
It was the name that called forth the true him.
[..]
The other selves were like the words he spoke—fabrications of the moment, misinformation required to protect Son from harm and to secure that one reality at least.
Toni Morrison, Tar Baby
Distribution of death
…think of racism, as, […] this kind of uneven distribution of death
“Saidiya Hartman & Arthur Jafa in conversation”, Hammer Channel video, 00:25:57, June 06, 2019, https://channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/601/saidiya-hartman-arthur-jafa-in-conversation
A life lived well has mostly encountered its proper proportion of death.
0503221911 or coordination
… in practice this requires prodigious coordination, precision, and the best efforts of several human minds
JD
Many Voices, One Diaspora—MoAD: Benefit Auction 2022
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD),based in the San Francisco Bay Area, […] is uniquely positioned as one of the few museums in the world focused exclusively on African Diaspora culture and on presenting the rich cultural heritage of the people of Africa and of African descendant cultures across the globe.
Many Voices, One Diaspora is MoAD’s benefit auction. Bidding will be open exclusively on Artsy and will close on Thursday, May 12th at 2:00pm PDT (5:00pm EDT).
Archival pigment print
19 × 13 in
Edition 1/5
Signed and dated in verso
Courtesy of the artist and David Castillo Gallery
Daniel Joseph Martinez on Joseph Beuys
Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York City
Daniel Joseph Martinez, Three Critiques…
From Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept